BERNINA 880 PLUS
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Product Videos
BERNINA 880: how to create individual decorative stitches with the Stitch Designer
BERNINA 880 - Tool Tip - Shaping
BERNINA 880: how to create embroidery pattern variations with the Colour Wheel
Features of the Embroidery Plus Upgrade for B 880 and B 790
Intro to a BERNINA 880 PLUS
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to thread and get prepared for sewing
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to edit stitches and use the Distortion function
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to combine lettering and stitches
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to combine lettering and stitches
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to sew buttonholes and sew on buttons
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to sew with the BERNINA Dual Feed (BDF)
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to get started with embroidery
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to use the Shape Designer function
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to use the Color Wheel function
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to do endless embroidery and how to embroider sewing stitches
BERNINA 880 PLUS how to clean and oil your sewing machine
BERNINA 880 PLUS first class sewing and embroidering


BERNINA 880 PLUS
The BERNINA 880 Plus offers a wealth of features that make embroidery easier. The 880 PLUS enables beautiful embroidery every time. Bernina handles it for you with new automatic features. Sew longer and faster with a jumbo bobbin and sewing speeds of up to 1,200 SPM.
The ultimate in sewing, embroidery and quilting
- Exciting new embroidery features
- Huge space for sewing and embroidery
- Create your own stitch patterns
- Quiet, fast and precise
- Sew and embroider longer

Beautiful embroidery every time
- Place your design exactly
- Clean embroidery results on the top
- Intuitive & very easy to use
The B 880 PLUS is enriched with exciting embroidery features like Pinpoint Placement, Enhanced Editing Functions, Total Embroidery Stitch Control and much more.
Automatic features are yours!
- Enjoy fully automatic threading
- Threads are cut at the end of a seam
- No manual lifting of the presser foot
The feed dog raises and lowers automatically for free-motion stitching when using the BERNINA Stitch Regulator, and for embroidery. The presser foot lowers at the start of a seam and lifts again at the end.
A machine that is fast & quiet
- Sew & embroider longer at a stretch
- Easy access to the Jumbo bobbin
- Fastest sewing & embroidering
The Jumbo Bobbin offers 70 % more thread capacity than standard bobbins and pops in and out with the touch of a finger. Sewing speeds up to 1,200 and embroidery speeds up to 1,000 stitches per minute.
Enjoy maximum space
- Handle large projects with ease
- Comfortably create big quilts
- Designed for the Jumbo Hoop
The extended freearm of the B 880 PLUS offers 12 inches of space to the right of the needle and five inches in height. Therefore you will enjoy a huge sewing and embroidery area.
Love the BERNINA innovations
- Alterations of stitch details are remembered
- Handle special materials with ease
- Stitches are kept consistent to achieve finest results
Total Stitch Control, the BERNINA Dual Feed and the BERNINA Stitch Regulator are features BERNINA developed to guarantee precise stitch quality and results.
Find the perfect stitch for you
- Select the perfect stitch for your project
- Choose your favorite design
- Personalize your project with different font styles
The integrated Stitch Library offers over 1,764 stitches, is clearly categorized and stitches are easily retrieved. Find 12 font styles and 460 high-quality embroidery designs.
Design your personal stitch
- Design & create your own stitches
- Simply draw your ideas directly on the screen
- Convert the design into a stitch pattern
Edit stitches and create your own. The creative possibilities are endless and you can continuously expand your stitch library.
Shape your imagination
- Duplicate embroidery designs with one click
- Arrange designs in your desired formation
- Any formation is possible
The integrated Shape Designer offers you functions like duplicating and arranging designs in a circle, square or heart.
Total embroidery stitch control
- No manual trimming on the top side
- Invisible securing stitches
- Smart tie-on/off stitches
Threads are automatically pulled down thanks to the Thread Away Mode. The Smart Secure function conveniently adds tie-on/off stitches to a design if none are pre-programmed. And the Invisible Secure makes the tie-on/off formation completely invisible.
Enhanced editing
- Undo & redo steps while editing
- Group & ungroup designs
- Rearrange designs
Undo or redo steps while editing or combining designs to return to your initial position. Combine designs to edit all at one time with group. Break apart designs to edit individually with ungroup. The design layer stitch-out sequence can also be customised.
Choose your favorite color
- Color your design easily
- Select your personal color scheme
- Embroider your project in beautiful colors
With the Color Wheel, designs can be changed easily and coordinated to your favorite color scheme before you start embroidering.
Embroidery Features
Pinpoint Placement
- Place your design on the fabric exactly where you want it.
- No need to use the template anymore.
- Easy to use: Simply select two points and match them with the markings on the hooped fabric.
- Perfect results quickly and precisely.
Enhanced Editing
- Undo & Redo: Simply undo or redo steps while editing or combining designs to return to your initial position.
- Group & Ungroup: Combine designs to edit all at one time with group. Break apart designs to edit individually with ungroup
- Rearrange: Customize the design layer stitch-out sequence. Use rearrange in combination with the group function.
Total Stitch Control
- Thread Away Mode: Pulls the threads down to the underside for clean embroidery results on the top. Program jump stitch length to manage thread cuts. Subject to design properties. No more manual trimming on the top side needed.
- Invisible & Smart Secure: Securing stitches become invisible as the tie-on/off stitches are sewn in stitch direction. Smart secure adds tie-on/off stitches to a design, if none are preset.
Bonus Embroidery Designs & Alphabets
- Dozens of new embroidery designs, including: monograms with frames, in-the-hoop projects and special technique designs.
- Includes nine newly digitized embroidery alphabets such as Curly, Happy Times, Deco and Rounded.
Intuitive & very easy to use
- Embroidery Consultant: For each embroidery technique the consultant helps you to choose the correct foot, needle, thread and stabilizer according to your fabric to achieve the best results.
- Toggle between mm & inches: The embroidery design size and the hoop dimensions can be shown in mm or inches.
- Reads most popular file formats: EXP, DST, PES, JEF, PCS, SEW, XXX.
Features
- Hook system - RL
- Maximum sewing speed (stitches per minute) - 1200
- Sewing space to the right of the needle - 300 mm
- Color touchscreen - 7” / 18 cm
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
- Sewing tutorial
- Embroidery tutorial
- Color touch screen 7” / 18 cm
- LED sewing lights 30 LED
- Multi-function knobs
- Maximum stitch width 9
- Maximum stitch length 6
- Needle positions 11
- Sewing in each needle position
- Number of spool holders 3
- Automatic thread cutter
- Adjustable presser foot pressure
- Manual thread cutter3
- BERNINA Dual Feed (BDF)
- Create and save stitch combinations
- Fully-automatic needle threader
- Memory (short-term/altered stitches)
- Memory (long-term/altered stitches)
- BSR enabled, straight stitch and zigzag (separate BSR foot required)
- Start/stop button (stitching without foot control)
- Slide speed control
- Upper thread indicator
- Lower thread indicator
- USB interface for PC connection
- USB interface for USB data stick
- Changing stitch settings while sewing
- BERNINA foot control with back-kick function
- Needle stop up/down
- Drag & Drop
- Bobbin winding while sewing/embroidering
- On-screen help
- Sewing tutorial
- Embroidery tutorial
- Creative consultant
- Personal program 4
- History function
- Setup program
- Language selection
- Alarm clock
- Eco mode
- BERNINA freearm slide-on table
- Machine weight 16 kg
- Machine size 578 / 227 / 360 mm / 22.7 / 8.9 / 14.2

Sewing & Quilting Features

- Pattern start/end function
- Elongation
- Programmable Securing Function
- Stitch Distortion
- Stitch Designer
- Pattern mirroring
- 360° directional sewing
- Free Hand System (FHS)
- Sideways motion feed
- Number of stitch patterns (incl. alphabet) total 1764
- Connecting stitches
- Utility stitches total 40
- Buttonholes (incl. eyelet) total 20
- Automatic buttonhole length measuring system
- Automatic buttonhole
- Manual multi-step buttonhole
- Button sew-on program
- Darning programs 3
- Heirloom stitch patterns
- Floral stitch patterns
- Cross-stitch programs
- Children/novelty stitch patterns
- Sewing alphabets11
- Monograms (with sideways motion)
- Reverse sewing
Embroidery Features
- Maximum embroidery area 15.7" x 10.2" / 400x260 mm
- Maximum embroidery speed (stitches per minute) 1000
- Built-in embroidery designs 462
- Embroidery alphabets 21
- Embroidery design formats EXP, DST, PES, PEC, JEF, SEW, PCS, XXX
- Onscreen editing of designs: positioning, mirroring, rotating, scaling, combining
- Pinpoint Placement
- Undo/Redo
- Group/Ungroup
- Color Wheel
- Rearrange embroidery designs in combination
- Invisible Secure
- Smart Secure
- Thread-up Command
- Programmable jump stitch cutting
- Thread Away Mode
- Embroidery Consultant
- Shape Designer
- Midi hoop functionality (embroidery field: 265 × 165 mm, 10.5" × 6.5")
- Mega hoop functionality
- Maxi hoop functionality
- Jumbo hoop functionality
- Automatic hoop recognition
- Freearm embroidery
- Personal memory for embroidery designs
- Standard embroidery hoops**3 (o,m,s)
- Lettering manipulation (WordArt)
- Importing stitch patterns
- Color resequence
- Cut jump stitches
- Sequence control
- Basting
- Endless embroidery
- Position recall
- BERNINA ArtLink embroidery software
- BERNINA Embroidery Software Compatible
- BERNINA PunchWork Tool compatible
- BERNINA DesignWorks Software & Tool compatible
- Mirroring, rotating, scaling

Included Accessories
Standard accessories for BERNINA 880 PLUS
- Bobbins, needles, threader, cone holder, seam ripper
- Soft cover, accessory box, foot control
- ...and more!

BERNINA Stitch Regulator (BSR)
- Perfect for free-motion quilting with a controlled stitch length.
- The sewing speed adapts automatically to the speed of the moving fabric
- Automatic control of the stitch length ensures absolutely even stitch formation

Reverse-pattern foot #1C
- For forward and reverse-feed stitches
- For materials such as cord, denim and wool

Reverse-pattern foot #1D
- For forward and reverse-feed stitches
- For materials such as cord, denim and wool

Overlock foot #2A
- Serging
- For elastic and stretch materials
- Neatening edges

Buttonhole foot with slide #3A
- Sewing any number of buttonholes of exactly the same length
- Flexible choice of buttonhole length up to 30 mm
- With or without cording

Buttonhole foot #3C
- Sewing buttonholes of different lengths
- Gathering using thread or elastic thread (smocking)
- With or without cording

Zipper foot #4D
- Accurately sewing in zippers of all sizes

Large oval embroidery hoop
- Large-scale embroidery and pattern combinations
- And for embroidering hats as well as fabrics that are slippery or difficult to embroider, with the optional "Hoop 'N' Buddyz" embroidery hoop insert
- Template for exact placement
- Max. embroidery area 145 x 255 mm
Also included:
- Blindstitch Foot #5
- Button sew-on foot #18
- Open embroidery foot #20c
- Drop-shaped embroidery foot #26
- Sideways motion foot #40c
- Free-arm slide-on table
- Knee-lifter/ free-hand system
- Small embroidery hoop
- Medium embroidery hoop
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Add-on SewingMachinesPlus Branded Sewing Machine Mats
AVAILABLE IN 12 COLORS AND 4 SIZES
Small 12" x 18" | Medium 17" x 23" | Large 18" x 33" | XL 22" X 39"Red, Blue, & Gold Available in XXL 24" x 45"
- Medium, Large, XL and XXL Sewing mats are 3/16" thick
- Small Sewing mats are 1/8" thick
- Reduces vibration to your machine
- Helps reduce noise from your machine
- Prevents scratches to the surface your machine is sitting on
- Color matches your machines brand colors
- Made of high quality Neoprene
- Wipe down with damp cloth to clean
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